Kenya’s Gen-Z and the crisis of ‘revolution’

In the last couple of days, Kenyan witnessed massive youth protests against tax provisions in the Finance Bill that they argue would make their hard life harder.

It was unlike anything Kenya, or Africa, had seen, because it was driven, in the initial stage, by predominantly cosmopolitan disenfranchised middle and upper working-class youth. It quickly became dabbed the “Gen-Z Protest” and “TikTok Uprising”, after the popular social media platform in which it marinated. As the days went by, it grew bigger, morphing into a broader socio-economic protest as a wider cross section of urban youth in several towns across the country joined.